Re: what makes a con-script a Con-Script?

 --- Rodlox R <rodlox@...> skrev:

> if you had five or fewer tablet (each the size of
> your palm), which had
> symbols etched in them...how would you know that it
> was a written
> language?...as opposed to random slashes in the
> rock...or something else?
>
> just wondering.
>
Probably by noticing that some symbols come back at
different places, especially if they are not very
simple ones (like a single stroke), and perhaps even
come back in a similar "context" ? If you see several
times something like "vi", for ex (God forbid), it
might be a clue that there can be some meaning in it,
although it is hard to know which one.



=====
Philippe Caquant


Ceterum censeo *vi* esse oblitterandum (Me).

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